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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
exertions, raised, as in the previous year, five thousand men. To meet the past expense, the little colony incurred heavy debts, and, learning political economy from native thrift, appointed taxes on property to discharge them. The whole continent was exerting its utmost strength, and eager to prove its loyalty. New Jersey, in which the fencible men in time of peace would have been about fifteen thousand, had already lost one thousand men, and yet voted to raise one thousand more. Gov. Bernard (successor to Belcher) to Secretary W. Pitt, Perth Amboy, 20 March, 1759. Its yearly expenditure for the service of the war was equal to about five dollars for each living being in the province. Such was the aid willingly furnished to an administration which respected colonial liberty. To encounter the preparations of England and America, Canada received scanty supplies of provi- chap. XIV.} 1759. sions from France. The king, wrote the minister to Montcalm, the king relies on your
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
and Golden to John Pownall, 12 August, 1761. In the neighboring province of New Jersey, Francis Bernard, as its governor, a royalist, selected for office by Halifax, had, from 1758, the time of hh flag, my neighbor, Governor Denny, receives a handsome douceur, and I have been told that Governor Bernard in particular has also done business in the same way. Lieutenant Gov. Sharpe to his brotemy by famine. In August, the same month in which this impassioned interdict was issued, Francis Bernard, whom the Board of Trade favored as the most willing friend to the English Church and to Brust resist in arms. John Adams's Works, IV. 6. In September of chap. XVI.} 1760. that year, Bernard manifested the purpose of his appointment, by informing the legislature of Massachusetts that tors had promised him a seat on the bench at the first vacancy. Oakes Angiers Journal, i. But Bernard appointed Thomas Hutchinson, originally a merchant by profession, subservient in his politics,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
524: 2. Various incidental allusions in letters of Bernard; 3. Letters of Hutchinson; and 4. The History of to public discussion till the winter of 1763-4; and Bernard expressly writes, that the power of parliament to l. XVIII.} 1761. of the revenue applied for them. Bernard to Shelburne, 22 Dec., 1766. But Otis was borneed for the benefit of officers and informers. Gov. Bernard to Lords of Trade, 6 August, 1761. Boston Gazette, 14 Sept., 1769. Bernard to Shelburne, 22 Dec., 1766. The injury done the province was admitted by the chie that will shake this province to its foundation. Bernard became chap. XVIII.} 1761. alarmed, and concealingin, Dec., 1761. You adore the Oliverian times, said Bernard to Mayhew, at Boston. I adore Him alone who is befEngland's Cambridge was in the hands of Dissenters, Bernard sealed a charter for another seminary in the interir be kept under restrictions; and began to talk of procuring themselves justice. Bernard to Lords of Trade.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
ho wished to escape the responsibility attached to a dependence on the people, were quite certain that a provision would be made for their independent support. Bernard to Shelburne, 4 January, 1767. Compare, too, Novanglus. The purpose of raising a revenue by parliament at the peace was no longer concealed; and chastisement wasf both could levy taxes without parliament. Treason! treason! shouted Paine, the member from Worcester. There is not chap. XIX.} 1762. the least ground, said Bernard in a message, for the insinuation under color of which that sacred and well beloved name is brought into question. Otis, who was fiery, but not obstinate, erasedd paint characters as freely; it shall not be published while I live, but I will be revenged on some of the rascals after I am dead; and he pleaded fervently that Bernard should reserve his favor exclusively for the friends to government. I do not say, cried Mayhew from the pulpit, on the annual Thanksgiving day, I do not say our
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
who had so much contributed to swell the vote, in the progress of his own ambition, had for a rival Halifax, his old superior at the Board of Trade, who was equally desirous of the department of the colonies, with the rank of a secretary of state. In the first days of January, 1763, it was publicly avowed what had long been resolved on, that a stand- chap. XX.} 1763. ing army of twenty battalions was to be kept up in America after the peace; A. Oldham to H. Gates, 6 January, 1763. Bernard, in 1765, says the new measure had been long determined on. and, as the ministry were all the while promising great things in point of economy, it was designed that the expense should be defrayed by the colonists themselves. On the tenth day of February, 1763, the treaty was ratified; and five days afterwards, at the hunting-castle of Hubertsburg, a definitive treaty closed the war of the empress queen and the Elector of Saxony against the great Frederic. The year of 1761 had ended for